Digital Poetry Interfaces: Interactive Engines for Digital Writing

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Briefly and simply my PhD was to explore the creation of digital poetry through the lens of interactivity and interface. The result, after many years of part-time study, was to build two dozen new digital poems, each expanding, in their own way, both the field of digital poetry in general and our understandings of the digital interface as a poetic/content, navigation and user/reader experience. Nearly all the works included in this PhD project have already proven themselves through exhibition, reviews and wide acceptance in literary, artistic, gaming and other communities. This exegesis investigates - through a mix of personal narrative, interview, technical and design description, the theoretical framework - the how and why and where of each digital poem and its related interfaces. In many ways, this exegesis mirrors my creative process by being experimental in form, expressive in content, and happily and intentionally and occasionally meandering.